UNIT 10: Connections Across Water

How were water routes used as conduits of expansion and trade? The traders of the Indian Ocean, the early Mississippians, and the Norsemen carried death and disease, skills and technologies, philosophies and religion down rivers and across oceans.

Candice Goucher discusses the conflict between advances in underwater archaeology and the speculative private industry that fuels much of this expensive work.
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